[Pkg-samba-maint] ucf for smb.conf?

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:46:04AM +0530, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:13:53PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:09:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have opinions on whether ucf is appropriate here?  Or is it to
> > > > me to present a trial implementation? :)

> > > Maybe one like the attached diff, then?

> > And by "the attached diff", I mean this one.

> Yikes. I never used ucf myself so I'm not really sure that my advice
> has some value.

> I overread your patch and found nothing awful (are you
> surprised?). IMHO, it's probably OK to jump into it an put that nice
> piece of work in production.

Also useful here will be if folks try out the patch, and give me feedback on
the user experience, prior to this being uploaded to unstable.

If it would make it easier, I could commit this on a branch for people to
look at without having to gather the old versions of smb.conf themselves for
testing.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org